THE ALLEGRAVITA BLOG

Yesterday, Allegravita was featured in a China-market interview on Andrew Allemann's Domain Name Wire podcast series, one of the most respected global domain industry expert discussion platforms. Our CEO Simon Cousins in New York and our CTO Raymond Li in Beijing...

Women in Shanghai are building new companies this weekend as .CO and Startup Salad open the very first startup hackathon in China exclusively for women! Over the weekend, more than a dozen teams will compete to win. Three startups will receive prizes that include...

Last week, our team heard that China's MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) would be implementing real name verification system for .COM and .NET domain names, which are owned by Verisign, a non-Chinese domain registry. This would mean that all...

Allegravita is honored to have received shout-out over the weekend from one of the world's most renowned domainers and Chinese language experts, Kassey Lee. We're pleased that he has highlighted one of our client's names and that he agrees with our Chinese naming...

Building on its roots as the world's go-to startup domain name registry, domain registry .CO successfully completed its first auction in China last week with proceeds totaling 1,703,450 (USD 254,140) for 25 domain names. Popular names such as CY.co—standing for 创业...

For domain name registries eagerly awaiting Chinese government approval for permission to fully enable their domains in the world's most populous nation, a ray of hope emerged today in China. The director in charge of these approval certificates (known in Chinese as...

Imagine every membership or luxury product in China. Then imagine all their most premium brands with the English acronym VIP added on and you will understand what happened last week in China's Internet market. From cars to condos, alcohol to private jets, exclusive...

Our good friends at EJEE featured us this week in their 7th edition of Domain (域名) magazine, the long-awaited premier magazine companion to Domain.cn, China's most original and premier domain name trading forum. Domain.cn is arguably the most important platform for...

Asia's largest portfolio domain registry Radix concluded its first ever China hackathon at HKUST (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) on Sunday, supporting young entrepreneurs starting exciting new businesses after their studies in Hong Kong. This year's...

The AFLC (American Football League of China - 中国美式橄榄球联盟) held its 2016 season summit of coaches at the Chongqing Radisson on Saturday, adding six new teams to their roster. Altogether, AFLC now represents 16 teams nationally in China hailing from every major...